The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-12 00:00:00

OLP DAILEY. ' . . Yest , Jdiv tin, adjourned Admiralty SessiOn Nits `held at the '01(1 1; before S:r \V", Jtidge -of the Achuiratt , Lord 0- l id I;aron ppNAt,ii, and Sir BL'ANc. • • _ Ifi Jaunt Chuimunh intik:lv:l for the touider,of Robert Dunn', a hicl tit JB., near'New„Calabar, on the Coast of Africa; by a continued series uitmge, itt cottsmuence of wads the said 11 : Dunn languish for a ntuulse,r of days; and at lastdied 9}l the 313 t tOf Afarell, 1807. counsel for the Crown, the SoLtctroit-GuNEttAL and Nit-, Jtaivis ; for the Prisoner; Air. GLIIINEY ' and , ,Mr, PLomuit, the Solicitor, General, opened the case for the prosecution. the Prisoner, he said, was ,Captain . of the Aeollo, of Liverpool, ,engaged in the ;. friean Skive Trade. Robert Dunn, the deceased, , As• - •is. a .lad of tB, and the brother-in-law of one cf ; the pwners of the vessel. He Nati hot ih the capacity, of.a,sailor, hot ptit on beard probably to gain,a • knowledge of the trade. In A,pgust„ the. Ship sailed (tom Liverpool, and in 00ober arrived on the ,coast of" New Calabar. On this.coast they remained, taking in n cargo of slaves, and sailed. in March, I 807, pit. the j Ist of , which rnonth, the lad Dunn in-vonseenence, as 'was charged, of a series of ill treatment which he had received. The Learned: Counsel then proceededin detail the circumstances: of that treatment, ,which shall be afterwardide- : set ibed in I he .words 'oFthe Witnesses, and : observed to. the Jury, that before they could, bring the Pri-! boner it; guilty, they Must be sore: of two things ; .Ist, that, the "fatts were -truly represented; and,. secondly, that the .ciretunstsnees..so detaileo pro- : • loved or. accelerated the, d'eath of the deceased... It was true that imputations and charges of this kind. ,wete mily made, and were too often produced by • '.resentment arising•from the discipline necesiarY An' • ~he kept up by the Captains of ships. They were not, therefore, to receive too easy or , credulous a -.baief; bait, on the ;other hand, it was the Any of the Jury to discot - uage the •immoderate use of aotho-' rity, and to protest-.those who were so completely placed at the Aitpogakind.rriercy of their superiors, as seamen must necessarily be. He then proceeded : to call thelyVitnesses.furlhe prosecution. • 'John Scott, the Surgeon of the Apollo, was first examined. He said, that .when Dunn came on -board, at Liverpool, he was in good health. The tteatment•which he received on_the,Outward passage ,was not very severe. They arrised,on the coast of hew Calabar in Oaober 1800, While there, -lie 1:;.!(1 seen the Captain give Donn five dezenlashes ~,at onetime, aria at miler :ticues.ent his head with the, handle .01 the eet,. which .w3s .made of hie .cory, He could not.fix the dates ; but.these aasOf, 4everity might happen about tmo months after their r • .arrival on the . African coast, Ile .had. beard the Pri loner say, that the 14d Dunn was sent as a spy on his condua ; that it was stickaft ., he that pie, the trade re bad name, anal In hoinust get rid .of him. He had ,n4o known the Captain. to hang him.up by the heels, ~with his head downWards,and- his hands just ranching the deck, and keep him in that position for three or -lour hours together. On -;mother occasion,. he mu- Tended him by area: of his' wrists, and in this position .lte remained to an hour or.. two. The lad was • ,punished, in thig,manner for, slightoffences—sneh as sugar or molasses, or not cleaning, oat .the necessary nibs of the, negroes, which the Cap. t.;in employ, 11 him to do ; sou etimes for no offence at. ail. He had 4140 known .him kept caked at the. deer, Avith a chain round his ueck or body, and exposed fOr a whole day to the heat of the sun, .svith his head one hail shaved, and his body tarred, • as an object of derision to the negroes. By all • this usage the boy was • much debilitated and gearly emaciated. rase day, while employed in emptying the necessary, tubs, the bay happened to overset oue al them an the deck ; when the • Caetain ..came up to hint, and knocked him Oaken with the heavy end of a handspike ; he then proceeded to punch him 'with the. handspike, and jumped upon hint with his feet. This happened, not more than throe weeks before his death. He then also even forced him to swallow some of the ordure, ivashing it down with salt water. His head had a 'mother of bruises Upon it, and also his body. (the -Witness) howeves, did not dress it, because the sante . ustiage was received . 'so frequently, 'and having 236 slaves On board, his time was . much taken up by his attention to them. In consequence of. the I;Int Liam liMed•treattliC•lll, the boy's heed and face wt-re very much swelled, and seemed to rise froM the .skull like a 'aponge, and his eyes were closed up, so that. he could not see: • The 60y was also Stinted is) provisions, and fOr several weeks together, he was allowed no animal food, but only about a poun d of yams or bread.. had also only about a pint and a half of water per, day Four or five days before his death, be saw him lying on the fore castlst, covered only with his great coat. fore lead appeared soft and spungy, and his fice was ,swelled to twice its natural size. Ile saw him after hit death, and his breast bone then stuck out like a wedge, his belly was shrunk in, and his back seem e d .humpeti.. There were'then marks of bruises on his back, head, and breast, and blood was stickin in his ' .'hair. The Witness kept the Ship's mortality list, and had made three entries with regard to theboy's illness and death. In this re c ,nister, to which the Witness had sworn as comet, the boy's death was ascribed ton kind of nervous fever, produdive of , great - dejAlity; but nottention was at this brutal, usage ; 'and in o pposition to IA hat lviures had said of his provisions b e i ng stinted; it was said in the mortality list that he bad eaten too much fruit and animal feed. Tarecon cite this, the'sviiiiess -said, that all the entries were made in presence of the andhe dorm not snake them hiller or more eiirred, as ho - hail reason to apprehend his 'Ain's) life was in danger f lmu t h e Captain. He J;,,AI :tiro paid little atre n ti f , e , to ! h . . h a ,• during his f rom tar that the Would charge hiroi'ssii.h neglekthig the slaves, and beat hint in consequence of it: lad . died on the 31 St of rslarch, when they were about a league — from New — Calabar lit their to the We - st Indies. - pu tbe “ith of .lutte they ;Arrived at Montserrat, aad when . - witneAs went ashore, be gave int , irneition ,our the anbje6t di the boy's de-.:tit to A .. .\l:l!!*;trite, in coo - ' .scgitpnct., c.f :!lc:; tv:ts i.W.(11 into eu:;- tody. i When 141' that tiland, he• received letter `, LONinoti Pripitut At itieSuN'.ot7 witliOut: date or signature; but which he.believed tq be in the hand-writing of the Prisoner. In This lets: tor the writer begslitn - toxitipte the 2 and he would malw,it for, his interfet. It alio that the depositions 'vbicti had,boin,given bc.iove thy. Mu- . .o . isirate were then lost, and therefore he inii;hi (4ipnix, In his..opinion tho boy'S death was caused !)), the. il l treatment he receied. , When cross-exarnined, he ;said, that the Captain' was not, dUring the voyage,. on good - terms with him and the,crew,, The Captain, had chariid him' w.iih..drunkenuess, and had punished him twice with the cat on . the African coast,. and once at the: Island of Dominica. There wit* once .sorpething like a ,mutiny,on board, while , off the coast of Ca.; labar. ' Some of the 'Crew were singing on the fore castle, and were ordered by .the Captain to desist ; gut,not doing so the captain immediately snapped a 'piqol-at'one of them. They touched at the Island of Doininica before they came to Alontsertat; but did not then lodge a charge against the Captain, be cause he was afraid. Henry Smith, one of the Seamen, was then call ed, and deposed to much the same etre& as the last Witness. He one day beard the Oaptain ask the deceased whether be thought he should ever return to Liverpool again.? -1e replied he did ; on which the Captain said he never should, for be .was sent to carry stories home—Williamson had gone to hell lately, and he should go a fter him. When cross examined, he said he had tallccd on the subje& with the Surgon and others of the'Crew at Montserrat, but the Surgeon had never said to him_stick to that, or any other words of that sort. • Nutson, another of the seamen, Was the next Witness. He repeated the same , disgusting ,detail of the brutal treatment which the deceased met with. Not a day.passed, he said, in which he did not see the boy lashed with the cat, or struck with the handle. Once he - saw the Prisoner knock him down with a handspike, but did not see him struck when he was down. He was the first per son. who saw the boy dead on the morning of 31 st of March ; when he told the Prisoner of it, be was answered " A—n your eyes, heave him overboard." At the time of his death, the back of the boy's head was cut to pieces, his face was greatly swelled, and he .thought the treatment he received caused his ,death. When cross-examined, he said, that the Captain had ill.used almost the whole crew. When off the coast of Calabar, eleven el them left the Ship, and staid on shore fOur weeks, on account of the ill usage they thought. they. had received; but the Captain gave them permission to go. -: . • Wm. Bairion,.another seaman, corroborated the .preceding evidence. When on board the Northuni berland,- on his return hnMe to give evidence against the Captain, eight letters were delivered to him, which were proved by Scott, the Surgeon, to be all in the Prisoner's hand-writing. These -letters were read in Court,.nnd the writer promises each of those who were .to give evidence tool. a piece, if they would " all determine and be, of one mind." lie advises ihtin te make their escape .hefore the trial ..came en, or on the triallo.contradiCt the Doctor, as the writer's life now lay their hands. In one letter ly says, " if you. Will only clear me, you shall; tincl,l)lo . youusincere friend." 'Witness also received dolJars by the same person who brought the let ters, but this he took as part payment of wages, and 'nut in any other way • • . On his cross-examination, this Witne3s was pre sented, with two letters, purporting to have been written -by him to the Prisoner. . ,But hedenied they - were his writing,.rind never asked tor, money . ward, for saying as he was desired .to. do. The Cap tain was in the habit of flogging them all round, and he had seen. him abuse the boy for half an hour to together. Samuel Jones, another seaman, was next examin ed, and deposed to much the same etre& as had been none by the preceding Witnesses. . • Several medical min, who had been present dur ing the trial, were then called' upon to give their opinion as to the effei:ts Which the treatment de scribed by the Witnesses might in ; their judgment produce ! _ _ Dr. Powell said, that•thestate of the boy's health, previous to his death, had not certainly been deserib .ed in an accurate and scientific way ..yet, in his judgment, the_ treatment described might produce his death. -We should have supposed that suffoca tion and death would have been the immediate con sequence.of suspending him by-the heels for three or tour hours together. If the boy was previously reduced to.a state of great `emaciation, there would certainly, in that case, be less .datwer suffocation. The boy did not appear .to-have died of any disease Of the climate. . . - Mr. Ramsdell, of St. Batholomew's Hospital, was also of opinion, that the severities given •in evidence produced the :boy's death, and more particularly; the beating he received with the handspike. He could motel - edit-that part of the testimony which said that the boy was suspended by the heels. for four, hours together. • • - The Prisoner being then. called on for his defence, delivered in a paper, which was read by -the Clerk of the Court. This defence stated in substance, that the crew had' been very mutinous throughout the voyage,. and had often threatened his destru&ion. The Dotior, from .habits of drunkenness,- was fre quently incapable of performing his duty, and on that account be . .had punished bite several times..., It was his resentment.for this thiit induced him nosy to attempt. to take away his life. 'He should prove that.hehadincited the crew against him, and had instru6ted the Witnesses what to say. He had been obliged to punish the crew at various times, and this excited their resentment: • He had no witnesses ,to falsify the charge i• and .his only reason for writing the-letters to the Witness :Berriory, that bad been produced in Court, was avery natural anxiety about trusting his life to the oaths °finch men in a Court of Justice. • -He then called several Witnesses in his .behalf. The.litst Was a Captain Bell, who com mended n trading Brig, lying , offnantserrat at the time when-:the : charges were- -brought against- the ,Prisoner. This Witness.deposed,that he overheard c,itt, the surgeon, say to the other Witnesses, they :need nut be a6 . aid.oflosing their wages, if they only stuck to him.. -To.this!some reply Avas.inada which he did. not - hear, and Scott then said, ." that Will not do---unless- we., have one story we oan't do in adding, " him. repent 'of flogging Inc."— 10:1TOON MARKETS, 'ter. _. , :RETURN OF wttEAT IN NlAlik - -I,ANE, ~.„ ~. By tviersrs CHI L. tr - MI MAL.r A S t -Meal Weigheit,. Inchtding only front the 2s'th ot Dee: ,to the a d . of lauk - agreeablj to tile Ata. ' 1 lib . Quarters at 8 1s od - 215 Quarters At 7.5 5 • oil 47 '-'--- ...it tltis cd 633 --- at 7.4 s 4,1-.- job --...-=-- at 79§ od 174 ------...at .73i ad . I 9 ------ - at 78s 64 tet) .--..---at 72: dd. 664.L-:.--L.-,- at 78s oil 68 - at. los oil '• re ''''''''.--..-...- at 77s 64 6t ' 2 43 . ;-------- at 77s cd 1 91 ---6 at (As ad' 696 --------. at 76s od j 55 And 7 Quarters at 435. per qu;.rtcr. Tuts: 3994 Quarters. --Average 765. of i 6. aid. higher than last Return. A RETURN OF FLOUR, From Dec. 26, to fan. t, from the Cocket-Office: Sacks. s. d. Sacks. , s. d. Sacks. 1. it 1 4 —65 0 taj7 -6o o 1 $3 -- 54 !! -- 136 --- 63 0 .434 —59 0 29 .......... ."- ' • And 25 Sacks at 545. 30 --6 c o .iyi --3 S o 13s --- si.* jeer 'S, Total --9,733 , ~c-'is.---- —A ~. verage sgs. 05, Sid. per Sack lower than la: cyt. per Sack. ,st cveek. VV ESTE N COUNTRY MARKETS Pair " J erk) Pr Wheat. , Oats. , Newbury I 6orto Sos I-33 6 oil to 39s Oti 28s od to If s Salisbury fros to jp: oft to Os od. j 29s ad to 3 Basingstoke i'64s to ios - 36s al' to '3Bs od 293 ott to Wineh,:stet, 166; to OS j-s Ott co 37s ott 2Ss Ott to 33! Del;l4,:a . I 56.5'0 7Zs 34S od to 175 od '2,9s od 34s m Warinster 36s to ps 33s adto 33s od j 3oi od to 3 I PRICE OF HOPS. `, BAGS. POCK &TS. Kent, 51. to 61. os. Kent, 51. os. to 71. os. Susbex, 41. t6l. tJ 5L Bs. Sossex., 41. 15s. to 51. I6Si s t 43:. Ss. FaraLunt, Bi. os. to 101. os: • • • -NEIVGATE ANI) LEADENHALL MARKETS. By tl.e Cart.: e. Beef -• ;.toti. to 4s. 41. Ve..l. 4s, ed. to 6s. 6 d.. Matt= ..s od. to j Lurk 4s, cd, to sa. 42-i• PRICE OF LEATHER . (per AT'LEADENIIA Butts, pto stab. - caen • - , 19101. •to 2114 Ditto, op to 6stta. tacit . 2 4 1, to tOJ , Men:nimbi Bite, ; • 10 246 • . lust. to 170' kineCoilcit Hides, aotl; Cropitttle!si 4i. tif solb. f , r cutting . tub.t.• to 241' Ditto ! .30 to 4clu. - - 16.1. tv i9tt• Cklf Skins, go" to 4016. 2.1. to 364. per lb: • -* Ditto. , so to 731 b. yy t. tJ 39d. pz.r 10. '7o' to Salb. 33d. to ;O. Small SeArs (Greenland) 31‘.1. to 4u.1. per lb. Lake ditto,' - taoi. to 163,. LW i)J4CII. . • -GOat Skins, .ss. 'to , 635.' Tanned Horse Hide's, acs. to 2.h. each. KAIV.III-DLS. Best }lei fi!riand Steers (p. st.) Ordinary, ts. Bd. to ts. odt 25. mt. to 3). Q. Nlathet t..:41t, its; ott, .ctdi * * Middling, 2S. z it. to 2S. 4,1. Eng. Flors4l4s.to i6s. on. .1117.• Sheep Skins - 2s 6d to ,Is 6d PIZICF. OF TALL(rw. • ' , • St.jaMILVS Market 4s. 4tl. TownTallow—i.od.7334s 4 Clare Market " 4s. ,4 t. Yellow 735. 64 . Whitm!lapel Market 45. 3,i . { t White do. 69::. od. os. per stonentlb: - - od. • 123 10 ' Melting Stull . o3. 593. WA . . .. Average Price 43. 30. ;'Ditto rouat --3.333. ed. , . '.- • Graves tas.:od. I Good Dregs zs. - Yellow Soap, BG,. —Mottled, 966.--(... Price of Candles per tluzen, 12:S. Ott.—Mptlithis I - 3S. 40,6 St. lANIES's lIAY MARKET, lAN. 9. flay. 41. 42.. to 61. 6s. o,l.—Aver. 41. ss: Sts‘sw, 21. 21. od. to 21. 44i. —Aver. at. 53. Oct. WHITECHAPIII, ItAY Flay, 41'. 4s. d. to I. iSS. 00. —A vor. 51. is. tad. Clover, 5.. 16s. oci. to 61. tos. ca.—Aver. 61. o.i. 6(I. Straw. 11. 12S. otl. to 21. os. 'd.--Aver. tI. its. 00. New 1 - I.ly 01. os. per Load.. " - CO A 1, - .IIIA RKET. Ships at Market. Jan 4. 2Y, Newcastle Sunderland 6. 32 Newcastle 2 Sunderland 8. 39 Newcastle Sold. .15 •ct 1 s fol 5,15 t at 49 (Id .—s • 04, 22 at 44S oel 536 • et 'SOS ed jog PO 28 at 46s qd 535 . 9d To T. TAYLOR, Surgeon, No. e, New Itridge-strei 3 ty • London. aIR, ,Edinburgh; May a, TN the Spring - of 1 ; 794 I was afiliaed - with 3 Venereal Complaint, which I tieated with for five months ; but was filet' obliged to apply ;IP regular Physician, who put a temporary stop to the vim. lence of the Disease (by mercurial applications) for' suing time . ; but growing, inspite of all medicine and the advit:o of the first Gentlemen of the Faculty here, worse and worse for two years, 1 was reduced to a stile almost uo .paralleled .and beyond dagiiriptiou, being an entire leper. and ulcerated from head to foot.—MY head, throat, moth, nose, legs,. arms, &c. have been alternately in danger Qt becoming useies , ,,; • in short, I have had froM twenty thirty eating ulcers on my body, and nearly totally Elk' privet! of si,;iit.—tt would be voluminotts porticiila* the all'my l'ilSC — sallidx• it to say,.there never sea;, o r eye, will be, one of a more daiieerous, or of a mom caliph.* eaten. nature. I was long looked upon by my friends, and imagined myself, beyond all hopes ot . recovery ; and, in 'deed. in my them condition, death was Neferahle to my, mote than miserable. state. In this iln:aurol situati on I drag a most miserable existence, till Divine Provideno 9 threw in my way a Newspaper coittaining the case of ;• 0 Mr. B. of Plymouth -my mends re.ei it, I ((odd not.---1 sent. and- prOcitimi so. - ile of your L E E's N': PI LI.S, which, by,.iLing front time to filne, am now, acd have lung been, (atter more than four years indescribable , distreSs), in as good a state of health as ever I enjoyed; as 3 proof of t • had a tine, thriving, healthy child, born tit me a tew months ago. In gratitt.de to God, and in hoggs of rendering my fellov..-creature service, I request you re publish this; and you tor;'at any time refer pe rsons who wish to be satisfied of the truth of this; or further pea' eulars*, to me or my friends, by )stilt( or person. As tew C. 430 for holiness ever equal mine, and n one eyeecd it, I have from ey.perience every reason to aSsitr° mankind, that in your Lit..K E's PILLS they will thin* sure, SIECSdi, Sale, Anti radical cure, for than mos t , 'dread ful stage of the Venzi - eal Disease, which is called a cbrir" muse Less. JOHN THOMPSON; * Insurmountable family reasons prevent making My name and address public; but creditable persons rear wanting irdurniation may also ise referred to me and inf, friends by Mrs. 5, Ramsay-Gardens, Edinburgh. Prepared and Sold '..l , tne Sole Proprietor, T. TAYLOR, Merober of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, at his house, No. t. New Bridge -street, 'Where lie will gi , 4: Advice without a fee, to persons talc- , in g these Pills, and will answer patients letters, it po,it. paid, on the _same terms, observing in all cases the Most inviolable secrecy, rto pc:sores name or case having been mentioned, but at their own particular request, by the Pro prietor, during the course or more than thirty-six years , that he has had the comiticting*of anextensive sale of the above Medicine, nd 'the practice arising. - therefrorn. They are also sold by his 'Appointment, for the con7e nience or those 'living at a distance, 'by Mr. Baxter, South-bridge, .Edirtisutgh; Mr. Macdonald, Printer, al": gow, to wnom also Mr. T. refers for his acithes • at 1,116 Perfumer's, No. 3s , St. Alban's-street, Pall-mall'; Mr. Robertson's Tby-shop, to 3, Oxford-street; Mr. pis' borough's, No. 7, I:;isii-street-rill, nearly•oppsiie the Ni c. '" nument ; Mr. St t vift, ItOok'sel ler, No,' 1, Union-row, 'Little. Tower-hill ; Mi. 8011, Dame-street, Dublin; and . by 6n r e ii, every consitierahle town on GreatAiritain i relaml, to i'aixt:# in only a s ., 9 d. eac h, *gilled up with fu:l . irir,edioll3, .wlicreby poisons of eirner SCY nu :fen,se Nes 'rk ith ease and secreey. N Is. Lt sore Box sold to Great .11ritain is -sealed' With or, which, .tay favour of tne C,:orp110 - 1.7.r.:,;n5, i,; F.ntr:ll, at the Stamp-0 Ifics---" t ; - ' l ' 4 err Bridge-street," 'to imitate Which is feiorly. - ilk others arc CDIZItti: .141.146.• Rsc; , A kg. 11 . 4 ItA li.Of Ne. 4, Alartlett-court, Bow.ttre et ; a nd publisbcd by Wl . us..mtaiL Aata , i csk tic P Pi; Oi SOntli Molttrb-s.t Grosvencu-4quate; VI Cl 0. a „ 5 1ignd 5 - where "frivol tisements, Orders for the Paper, I diets for the Edlifir:tke. (Post-boi,:h, mut be addres3ed. Wi tnesc *was presed 'When the seamen qtfire their de positiotts before a tivistrate at Montserrat, they did not then stir r:at the•hoy was su,Tended by the hAels. The, 4positions then taken were nra into his hands, in order to he brought home ; but they, were lmt Out of his cabin,' and hefild not know how. The Prisoner was on hoard his Brig, and had aceen to the cabin. Abia Dowhary swore, that be overheard a conver sation at a grog house in Montserrat, in which Scott said to the other witness, " you all say as I say, "no fear but we shall do him.'' This was be: for© they were examined before a Magistrate at Montserrat., Wm. Hoskins, a Purser in the Navy, swore, that _*bout three months ago be had'a conversation With Scott, the Surgeon, in Which Scott told him that the Prisoner Jtad exercised great severities upon the hip's Company. .He had swore to the Ship's mor tality list 'at Dominica, but what was contained in it was not true ; and he had done so from being afraid Cif Chapman, the Prisoner. ,Scott then added, that, had be not been punished by the Captain on the voyage from Dominica, to Nlontserrat, he would not have said a word' about the boy, but now he should. - • Captainßrnwn,!pf the,4/40, an African, trader, was on the Calabar Coast at the same time'with the 4db. One day the 'Ilion() hailed him, and when he went on board of her, Captain Chapman,•-the Prisoner,, said his life was in danger, from ills crew ; and the crew then appeared to the witness in a mu tinous state. Witne‘4 told theni, that if they would not he Tl'uiet; he should be forced "to lay.his Ship alongside- them, and force therm to return. to their duty. , • • Jonathan barCey, an African CaPtain,' 7 Said, that the Prisoner once,‘on the death of hiS Surgeon, Or formed that,ofiice in his room,, and executed it Vial . great, humanity.. Sir SIMON LE pi.mqc then proceeded to Sum up the evidence at gtleat length.' He observed; 'that if 'the facts .as 'given in evidence were to be belieyed, there could be no doubeofthe . guilt of the Prisoner ; and of their amounting to murder. The only ques tion was as to the credibility of the:Witnesses. It would be for the Jury to weigh well theiendency of the different evidence they had heard, and decide according to the best of their judgment. The Judge having finished his chargO, the Jury withdrew to consider of their verdict about nine o'clock at night. After continuing shut up till about one o'clock in,the morning, the Judges sent to enquire whether it 'as likely they would come to a speedy determination about their verdi&. The Jury replied that it was not then _likely.. Precisely at three,o'clock in the morning, however, they re turned to Court, and brought in a verdid of NOT GUILTY. The Prisoner was then arraigned on tw o o th er charges ; one fur the murder Of, John Hanson, and the other for that of Henry. Johnson, on the high seas ; l)ut there being no . evidenee, lie Was of course acquitted of these also: The. Court of Admiralty was then adjourned. The Irisoner throughout condu&ed himself with the greatest coolness, or indeed rather in a way ap proaching to indifrerence,i, 'He is a little man, with lharP an 4 .r4ther harsh . features. Curley, the. Brighton Shepherd; and Cook, the Soldier, ran .yesterday mtrning,.atßlackheath, 130 ; yards-, for 3ogs. a side. At twelve o'clock a great (.:onconrie or spe(.tators assembled, and the ground was measured under the garden-Wall of her Royal Highness The Pi im,cess of Wales. The judges were, for Cook, Mr. Giles, a respe6table fishmonger,--at Billingsgate; and Richmond, the Black, for Curley. They both held a pocket=handkerChief at the Win ning.post. The two swift-tboted heroes- tossed up .for their ground ; Curley lost the toss, and had the lower side of the road, which was veri touch against him.. The oddS were seven to . three :in favour of Cook. At one o'clock" they started, at the firing of a pistol, when they ran elbow to-elbow all the way, and came in together, in 13 seconds; it was adjudg ed a dead heat. The stake-money was returned, 'and the bets declared void.. It was the opinion of all present, that Curley Would have gained the race, had he had the preference of the ground. 111RTBS'.. On Tuesday last, Mrs. J. Nforminsell, of a Son. 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